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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics
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In article <95uav7$nfb$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> In article <3A824CF4.940EA80E@PublicPropertySoftware.com>,
>   Al Christians <alc@PublicPropertySoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > How is it that single authors produce the most praised
> > literary works, but egoless, pair, and team-oriented
> > approaches are favored for software
> > works?
>
> Perhaps because software projects have more in common with
> engineering tasks than fine art. This does not mean that there
> is no artistic element. When a team designs and builds a

The analogy Fredrick Brooks used in "The Mythical Man-Month" was
building a Cathedral. His archetype is Reims Cathedral, whose builders
supposedly stuck to the original plan and style, despite changes in
architectural fashion, through the multiple generations it took to build.

--
T.E.D.

http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html


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